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Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.”

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German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”

Spiritual Results Principles Greatness Humility Pride Universal Slavery Democrat Rings Smallness Orcs

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

Made Differences Morality Dear Gossip Charming Scandal Tedious Arthur

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.”

Ifs Men Way Kind Black Scared Ugly Intuitive

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.”

Knows Men Values Dear Absurd Cynic

Author:Oscar Wilde

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